Sentences with phrase «rising food prices increases»

As the force of rising food prices increases, we are in danger of a widespread transition to disorder.

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But price rises also moderated for other items such as television sets and processed food, a sign the increase in import costs from previous yen falls was dissipating.

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It's likely Ontario's restaurant food inflation will continue to rise, he said, as price - sensitive restaurateurs realize they did not increase prices enough initially or learn they did not account for the costs of other new legislation, including new rules around vacation and holiday pay.

«Prices for foods, feeds, and beverages rose 3.7 percent in March, the largest monthly gain for the index since a 4.3 - percent increase in March 2011,» said the BLS in a press release.

Arnold said this is the last phase of Chipotle's planned price increase and is a response to rising inflation in food and labor costs.

Any shortfall would lead to rising food prices that would hit the world's poor hardest, as has already occurred from price increases of recent years.

Food prices measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics rose 0.3 percent in April, bringing this year's gain to the highest since a 3 percent increase in the first four months of 1990.

Excluding energy, prices rose 1.0 %, while prices of food, alcohol and tobacco increased 1.7 % and prices of services were 1.1 % higher.

Increases in food prices, erosion of Qatari fiscal balances and a rise in borrowing costs are real risks Qatar will continue to face if the situation is not settled amicably, according to M.R. Raghu, head of research at Kuwait Financial Center (Markaz) and managing director of Marmore Mena Intelligence.

The FAO food price index rose in August to its highest point since May 2015, as increases in dairy, oils and sugar offset weak cereal prices.

World food prices posted their biggest monthly rise for four years in June, buoyed by a surge in sugar and increases for most other edible commodities, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday.

Nestle doesn't expect raw material prices to rise further this year, despite a recent FAO report that forecasts an increase of over 2 per cent in the world food import bill in 2006.

Nestlé, the world's biggest food and drink manufacturer, has announced a modest increase in Q1 profits after successfully offsetting rising raw material costs with price increases across the UK and Continental Europe, Tom Armitage...

The evidence that is available about food production and processing, but not included in the Green Paper, is that the sector's businesses are in the main under considerable financial pressure as a result of falling real commodity prices, rising input costs, increased government regulations, rising labour costs, and lower retail margins.

However, much of this increase was just in the last year, as consumer prices for oranges rose 23 % between March 2013 and March 2014 — more than any other food product.

District officials said they had to increase prices in order to keep pace with rising food and labor costs.

Nationwide, food prices rose 0.9 percent in April, the largest one - month increase since January 1990, federal data show.

When infant formula prices rise, the cost of a WIC food package increases, fewer people can be served and some people must be removed from the rolls, «so there is real consumer injury, «he said.

Food production is likely to come under increased pressure in the coming years if fuel prices continue to rise and the world's population increases.

Increases in the price of food and energy have been above inflation - it is these price rises which hit the poor hardest.

Rising temperatures will slash yields for rice, wheat and corn throughout the developing world, exacerbating food price volatility and increasing the number of undernourished people, the report warns.

As fuel prices for imports rise and more and more environmental issues linked to food production come to light, the level of interest in aquaponics is «increasing astronomically,» Rakocy says.

There are various phenomena at work but rising food prices act like a force on the system, increasing the tendency to disorder.

A permanently erratic and harsh monsoon would depress crop yields, increase erosion on farms, and cause a rise in global food prices as India is forced to import more food.

This book provides a thorough assessment of the factors that influence global food insecurity, including rising energy prices, water scarcity, increased biofuel use, and expanding populations.

The growing global demand for food and bio-energy, and the recent rises in food prices, slow down progress in reducing poverty, but increase demand for water from the agriculture and energy sectors.

Levels of personal debt are rising higher than ever before as people struggle to meet increasing food and fuel prices when wages are being frozen.

While it's not certain that food prices will rise, it's a safe bet that overall food production and consumption will continue to increase.

I blame the Greens and environmentalists for causing tens of millions of deaths through banning DDT, causing food price rises and increasing food poverty though their advocacy of biofuels and, importantly, causing the world's CO2 emissions to be about 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would have been if not for their anti-nuclear activism over the past half century.

Worldwide, high crude oil prices, increasing extreme weather events, population growth and economic development of poorer countries, crop - based biofuels, political conflict and unrest in the Middle East, and slowing crop yield growth are all factors contributing to rising food prices.

Specifically the policy of burning food — maize as biofuel — has contributed to sharp rises in food prices which are causing great hardship in many countries and is also now leading to increased deforestation in Brazil, Malaysia, Indonesia, Togo, Cambodia, Nigeria, Burundi, Sri Lanka, Benin and Uganda for cultivation of crops».

The RUAF network was initiated in response to the needs identified by a group of representatives from 28 international organisations, including UNDP, FAO, IDRC, GTZ and CIRAD, that met in Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 and recognised the need to address the increasing «urbanisation of poverty» and growing urban food insecurity related to urban - rural migration, lack of formal employment, rising food prices, growing dependence on food imports, increasing dominance of supermarkets and fast food chains, and challenges posed by climate change.

And you think if food price rises, tax burden increases (we're already looking at a trillion dollar Federal Flooding Ins.

To date, food crops (corn, sugar, and vegetable oil) have been the primary source of biofuels for transportation, but increased use of these fuels has created more problems than solutions: rising food prices and food price volatility, and accelerated expansion of agriculture in the tropics.

But the growing appetite of ethanol refiners for the American corn crop has steadily driven up the price of food worldwide, while increased demand for corn has caused an rise in fertilizer use and pesticide - intensive agriculture in the United States.

Clini said that food prices are rising in part due to unfavorable climate conditions, an increasing population and a growing demand for meat and animal feed.

We are seeing climate disruption leading to rising food prices, loss of biodiversity, deteriorating ecosystem services, increased chances of vast epidemics and nuclear resource wars and a general reduction in the odds of avoiding the first catastrophic collapse of a global civilization.

«half the world is vulnerable to social instability and violence due to rising food and energy prices, failing states, falling water tables, climate change, decreasing water - food - energy supply per person, desertification and increasing migrations due to political, environmental and economic conditions... With nearly three billion people making $ 2 or less per day, long - term global social conflict seems inevitable without more serious food policies, useful scientific breakthroughs and dietary changes».

He also reserved criticism for the recently enacted energy law, which calls for a fivefold increase in biofuel production by 2022, stating that its promotion of corn ethanol would lead people to «starve to death in parts of the world» as a result of rising food prices.

«They are hurt by declines in agricultural productivity but the value of their farm output may rise due to higher food prices, increasing their incomes,» explained Ahmed, whose findings are published in Environmental Research Letters.